From isdoug at cityu.edu.hk  Sat Feb  1 01:34:37 2014
From: isdoug at cityu.edu.hk (Doug Vogel)
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:34:37 +0800
Subject: [AISWorld] PACIS 2014 Conference Track on IS/IT in
	Healthcare	(eHealth)
Message-ID: <8822_1391236479_52EC957D_8822_351_1_fb40f82d7a81.52ed05fd@cityu.edu.hk>

PACIS 2014 -- Chengdu, China, June 24-28, 2014 Conference Track on 
IS/IT in Healthcare (eHealth)
 
Today?s healthcare industry globally is facing numerous challenges 
pertaining to financial, demographic and technology issues surrounding 
distribution, access, and delivery of healthcare services. Achieving 
excellence in healthcare which lies in the provision of superior 
access, quality and value has become the priority on the agenda for 
any healthcare reform initiative. Such reform and the promise of 
superior healthcare delivery can only be realised through the prudent 
design, development and implementation of various IS/IT initiatives. 
Hence, the impact on the healthcare sector of IS/IT initiatives, 
primarily in the form of eHealth, electronic medical records and 
healthcare portals is not only significant but also far reaching. 
 
Recognizing the importance of IS/IT to healthcare in the spirit of 
ubiquitous and collaborative innovation, this research track is 
dedicated to IS/IT in Healthcare (eHealth). We invite submission (by 
15 February, 2014 at <A HREF="http://pacis2014.org/initial.php)" target="l">http://pacis2014.org/initial.php)</A> of high quality 
completed research or research in progress papers that address any 
aspects of research in regard to IS/IT in healthcare including but not 
limited to e-health initiatives, electronic medical records, 
e-pharmacy, eHealth card initiatives in various countries as well as 
wireless initiatives. Possible topics include (but are not limited 
to): 
 ? Internet and networked solutions for superior healthcare delivery 
 ? Technology use to better manage healthcare 
 data/information/knowledge 
 ? Wired and/or wireless healthcare initiatives 
 ? Wellness and citizen-centric healthcare
 ? The management of information and knowledge in integrated healthcare 
 systems 
 ? Integrative Chinese and Western approaches to healthcare  
 ? Big data and analytics in healthcare
 ? Designing healthcare organizations, systems and processes to 
 incorporate eHealth solutions 
 ? Electronic medical records
 ? Radiology information systems (RIS) 
 ? Health data base management systems 
 ? eHealth card 
 ? eHealth and emergency and disaster relief 
 ? eHealth Policy 
 ? Privacy, security and trust issues with eHealth solutions 
 
Track Co-Chairs: 
Doug Vogel, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R.C. (email: Vogel.doug at gmail.com)
Xitong Guo, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R.C. (email: xitongguo at gmail.com)
Nilmini Wickramasinghe,  RMIT University, Australia (email: nilmini.wickramasinghe at rmit.edu.au)
 
 





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From Laurence.Brooks at brunel.ac.uk  Sat Feb  1 05:25:30 2014
From: Laurence.Brooks at brunel.ac.uk (Laurence Brooks)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 10:25:30 +0000
Subject: [AISWorld] CFP - 19TH UK ACADEMY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE,
 2014, OXFORD, UK, 7-9th April
Message-ID: <39E87C34EC919C40A77520C3A58C254302AC8702@v-ex10mb3.academic.windsor>

**** Deadline Approaching ****

19TH UK ACADEMY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, 2014, OXFORD, UK, 7-9th April

THEME: USING INFORMATION SYSTEMS TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE: FROM IDEALS TO ACTION Keynote Speakers: Professor Geoff Walsham, Professor Tom Jackson

The exhortation to bend more scholarly effort in the IS field to improving the lot of the less privileged and underserved is not new. But the translation of "lofty ideals" into "actionable proposals" is still more honoured in the breach than the observance. So much of our research and teaching continues to be geared to the interests of commercial enterprises, rather than serving humanistic goals of freedom and emancipation.   

The theme of this year's conference is a natural continuance of that of 2013, "Social Information Systems" which called for a broadening of IS research to embrace more of the social sphere: health, social care, public services and community development. 

As well as contributions focused on the Conference theme, papers addressing any aspect of the IS field are also invited. 

For more details, see the conference website: http://www.ukais.org.uk/conference/conference2014/

Programme Chairs: David Wastell, David Wainwright, Laurence Brooks 

PhD Consortium: Diana Limburg, Rachel Mclean

Venue: St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK

TIMETABLE
Monday 3rd February 2014 - Submission deadline for full and short papers 
Monday 10th March 2014 - Final submission deadline for PhD Consortium abstract Monday 24th March 2014 - Final formatted copy of all papers due



From Laurence.Brooks at brunel.ac.uk  Sat Feb  1 05:34:57 2014
From: Laurence.Brooks at brunel.ac.uk (Laurence Brooks)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 10:34:57 +0000
Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2014 Socio-Technical Aspects of Information
 Systems Minitrack
Message-ID: <39E87C34EC919C40A77520C3A58C254302AC8723@v-ex10mb3.academic.windsor>

CALL FOR PAPERS

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Savanah, Georgia, USA
August 7-10, 2014.
(http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/)

Track: IS Philosophy (SIGPhilosophy)

MiniTrack: Socio-Technical Aspects of Information Systems There is growing acceptance that IS it is not solely about the technical issues which are the major factor in their successful development and use, but the other relevant (non-technical) human and social factors. These combine with technologies to create the informated contexts in which IS are developed and operate; effectively or otherwise. Within the IS field the 'socio-technical' movement (Mumford, {1995, 2003}) can be seen to provide insights into this complex relationship between the technological artefact and the social aspects in which they are situated (Avgerou et. al., 2004). In this, these technologies and their functionality may be seen to combine with humans and their actions to constitute informated 'socio-technical ensemble' (Bijker and Law 1995) that exhibit a concerted agency. How such ensembles may be effectively created, maintained and changed - locally and globally- incrementally and radically - is the subject of this mini-track.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
*             Social informatics
*             The application of social theory to information systems (eg. Structuration Theory, Actor-Network Theory, StructurANTion Theory)
*             Human and organisational aspects of information systems
*             Balancing of social and technical factors in information systems development and information systems
*             Critiques of the socio-technical approach
*             Case studies of socio-technical analysis of information systems
*             Sociomateriality and its implications for our understanding of information systems
*             Comparative studies (ie. between sectors, countries, cultures, etc.) of socio-technical analyses of information systems
*             Comparative analyses of socio-technical change and information systems
*             Global/local (or 'glocal') balance of information systems within a socio-technical context

Instructions for Authors.

To submit a paper, please follow the directions at
http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers

Submission:
Please follow the instructions given at
http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers

Important dates:
March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions
April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date
April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due
April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due
August 7-10, 2014: AMCIS Conference

Minitrack Chair(s):

Laurence Brooks
Brunel University, UK
Laurence.Brooks at brunel.ac.uk

David Wainwright
Northumbria University, UK
david.wainwright at northumbria.ac.uk
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From grlmc at urv.cat  Sat Feb  1 06:49:21 2014
From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 12:49:21 +0100
Subject: [AISWorld] AlCoB 2014: extended submission deadline 11 February
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1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

AlCoB 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 1-3, 2014

Organized by:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/

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AIMS:

AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and
graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in
biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and
structure prediction.

The conference will address several of the current challenges in
computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling
sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the
genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and
comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6)
inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.

Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be
reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.

VENUE:

AlCoB 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of
Barcelona. The venue will be the Catalunya Campus.

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

Exact sequence analysis
Approximate sequence analysis
Pairwise sequence alignment
Multiple sequence alignment
Sequence assembly
Genome rearrangement
Regulatory motif finding
Phylogeny reconstruction
Phylogeny comparison
Structure prediction
Compressive genomics
Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ...
Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification,
differential analysis 

Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics,
metatranscriptomics ...
Microbiome analysis
Systems biology

STRUCTURE:

AlCoB 2014 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda),
Comparative Genomics Approaches to Identifying Functionally Related Genes

Uwe Ohler (Max-Delbr?ck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin), Decoding
Non-coding Regulatory Regions in DNA and RNA (tutorial)

Jason Papin (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), Network Analysis of
Microbial Pathogens

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto, JP)
Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan, IL)
Alberto Apostolico (Atlanta, US)
Joel Bader (Baltimore, US)
Pierre Baldi (Irvine, US)
Serafim Batzoglou (Stanford, US)
Bonnie Berger (Cambridge, US)
Francis Y.L. Chin (Hong Kong, HK)
Benny Chor (Tel Aviv, IL)
Keith A. Crandall (Washington, US)
Bhaskar DasGupta (Chicago, US)
Joaqu?n Dopazo (Valencia, ES)
Liliana Florea (Baltimore, US)
Olivier Gascuel (Montpellier, FR)
David Gilbert (Uxbridge, UK)
Gaston H. Gonnet (Zurich, CH)
Roderic Guig? (Barcelona, ES)
Dan Gusfield (Davis, US)
Vasant Honavar (University College, US)
Sorin Istrail (Providence, US)
Tao Jiang (Riverside, US)
Inge Jonassen (Bergen, NO)
Anders Krogh (Copenhagen, DK)
Giovanni Manzini (Alessandria, IT)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Satoru Miyano (Tokyo, JP)
Burkhard Morgenstern (G?ttingen, DE)
Shinichi Morishita (Tokyo, JP)
C?dric Notredame (Barcelona, ES)
Graziano Pesole (Bari, IT)
Mark Ragan (Brisbane, AU)
Timothy Ravasi (Thuwal, SA)
Allen G. Rodrigo (Durham, US)
Steven Salzberg (Baltimore, US)
David Sankoff (Ottawa, CA)
Thomas Schiex (Toulouse, FR)
Jo?o C. Setubal (S?o Paulo, BR)
Steven Skiena (Stony Brook, US)
Peter F. Stadler (Leipzig, DE)
Wing-Kin Sung (Singapore, SG)
Alfonso Valencia (Madrid, ES)
Jacques van Helden (Marseille, FR)
Arndt von Haeseler (Vienna, AT)
Lusheng Wang (Hong Kong, HK)
Limsoon Wong (Singapore, SG)
Xiaohui Xie (Irvine, US)
Dong Xu (Columbia, US)
Zohar Yakhini (Santa Clara, US)
Alex Zelikovsky (Atlanta, US)
Michael Q. Zhang (Dallas, US)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting
original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to
the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2014

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will
be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics (TCBB, 2012 impact factor: 1.616) will be later published
containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed
to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from September 21, 2013 to July 1, 2014.
The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: February 11, 2014 (23:59 CET) ? EXTENDED ?
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 15, 2014
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 22, 2014
Early registration: March 29, 2014
Late registration: June 17, 2014
Starting of the conference: July 1, 2014
End of the conference: July 3, 2014
Submission to the post-conference TCBB special issue: October 3, 2014

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

AlCoB 2014
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559543
Fax: +34 977 558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili




From askira at cox.net  Sat Feb  1 14:30:26 2014
From: askira at cox.net (Irit Askira Gelman)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 14:30:26 -0500
Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS'14 CFP: Data and Information Quality in Decision
	Making
Message-ID: <20140201143026.3UGT9.975903.imail@fed1rmwml205>


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20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 
 
Track: Data Quality and Information Quality 
 
Minitrack: DATA AND INFORMATION QUALITY IN DECISION MAKING 
 
 
         Savannah, GA ? August 7-10, 2014
          http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/
================================================================ 
 
Models of decision making, mainly normative models of decision making, point to the critical role of information in this process. For instance, Herbert Simon?s classic model of decision making (intelligence, design, choice [Simon, 1977]) emphasizes the essential role that information has through its initial decision phase, intelligence, which consists of a scan of the environment that aims to identify new problems or opportunities.  Evidently, information also has important role in the design of possible avenues of action: the design phase involves intelligence as well, e.g., of materials, techniques, and/or processes [Boland and Collopy, 2004]. Similarly, the choice of a preferred alternative involves intelligence of the current conditions that affect each alternative.
 
This minitrack centers on the relationship between the quality of the information that is employed in the decision-making process on one hand, and, on the other hand, the product of the decision, other aspects of the decision process, the consequences of the decision, and/or its utility and value.  The ultimate goal of this research is to produce solutions that bring under control and mitigate the negative effects of poor information
quality, i.e., improve decisions both subjectively and objectively. 

Papers in this minitrack will aim to:  
?+ Extend the existing understanding of the above relationships in a chosen setting 
?+ Propose a new artifact(s) (e.g., a concept, model, method, system implementation)that promises a new solution 
?+ Examine the value of a previously proposed artifact 
?+ Refine a previously proposed artifact 
 
We welcome original research papers regardless of decision domain, decision process, or research methodology. Since related problems have been studied in numerous problem domains and diverse scientific disciplines, we encourage authors to explore this rich literature and benefit from it. 
 

---- Submission Outline ---- 
+ Manuscript submissions open:   January 5 2014. 
+ Submission Deadline:                   midnight, Savannah (EST) time, March 1, 2014
+ Author Notification:                          April 4, 2014
+ Revision submission:                    April 18, 2014
+ Camera ready submission deadline:  April 25, 2014


Paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system ( http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 ). BE SURE TO SELECT THE APPROPRIATE MINITRACK.

Papers must not exceed 5,000 words and must conform to the AMCIS 2014 submission requirements.  At least one author of every accepted submission must present at AMCIS 2014 in Savannah. For additional information see http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers . 

 

----- Minitrack Chair ---- 
Irit Askira Gelman, PhD
email: askirai at dqiqsolutions.com 
Web page: http://dqiqsolutions.com/AcademicBkg.aspx








From ykpark8 at gmail.com  Sat Feb  1 16:29:30 2014
From: ykpark8 at gmail.com (YoungKi Park)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 16:29:30 -0500
Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2014 CFP: Set-Theoretic Methods: Qualitative
 Comparative Analysis (QCA) for IS Research
Message-ID: <CAEcceQ5HhA+xnYJjGFadz=UG2TrRwYJLCFH-whzWCJnMxMRciA@mail.gmail.com>

CALL FOR PAPERS



Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Savanah, Georgia, USA
August 7-10, 2014.



Track: Research Methods (
http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/track-list/77-amcis-2014/115 )



Minitrack Title: Set-Theoretic Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis
(QCA) for IS Research





*DESCRIPTION*

In recent times, information and digital technologies have become tightly
interconnected with organizational and environmental elements. This
'fusion' has created a complex system that often exhibits nonlinear,
discontinuous
change such that a small adjustment in one element can trigger drastic
changes in other elements, and eventually the whole system can change
radically and stabilize at a new equilibrium. Given such complex dynamics, the
role of information technology can be determined by other elements of the
whole system and thus can be better understood if it is viewed as a part of
the holistic system instead of as a separate independent variable.



Although traditional correlation-based methods have tremendously
contributed to the success of IS research, it becomes much difficult for
such methods alone to completely explain the complex digital phenomena.
Recently, set-theoretic configurational methods such as qualitative
comparative analysis (QCA) get increasing attention as an alternative and/or
complementary way to build a holistic configurational theory. QCA developed
by Charles Ragin (1987) integrates the strengths of both case-oriented
qualitative methods and variable-oriented quantitative methods and it is
well suited to investigating the holistic aspects of complex phenomena.





*SUGGESTED TOPICS BUT NOT LIMITED TO:*

We encourage authors to submit both conceptual and empirical papers that
discuss how set-theoretic methods are different from and complementary to
traditional methods in building or testing IS theories; show empirical
applications of QCA to IS research topics; build novel IS theories in
digital settings.

  - Empirical studies that applies set-theoretic QCA methods

  - Theory building and/or testing with set-theoretic QCA methods

  - Methodological comparison of QCA with traditional methods

  - Benefits of using QCA in the IS research areas

  - Limitations and challenges of set-theoretic QCA methods in applying to
IS research

  - Investigating the holistic aspects of complex systems with
set-theoretic methods

  - Building novel IS theories with QCA

  - Revealing new aspects of extant IS theories with QCA

  - IT impact on organizational performance - synergetic, complementary,
equifinal effects

  - Multifaceted, inconsistent roles of digital technologies such as
enabling vs. inhibiting roles

  - Multiple design solutions for new IT systems depending on
organizational idiosyncratic context

  - Enterprise architecture design with QCA

  - Social network analysis with QCA

  - Investigating the complex dynamics of new IT systems development with
QCA

  - Small, medium, and large N case QCA studies

  - QCA studies for multiple levels - individual, team/group, organization,
industry, country, population, field



This minitrack will foster discussion about how QCA can help researchers
build novel, richer theories in the IS research field. We encourage authors
to submit both conceptual and empirical papers from diverse areas which
apply QCA to IT-related topics in IS, management, sociology, strategy,
marketing, economics, operations, supply chains, accounting, and finance,
to name a few.





*INSTRCUTIONS FOR AUTHORS:*



Submission:

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014
For more information visit:  http://amcis2014.aisnet.org


Important Dates:
Deadline for paper submissions: March 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2014
Revisions due: April 18, 2014
Final copy due: April 25, 2014



Minitrack Co-Chairs:



YoungKi Park

ypark1 at uakron.edu

University of Akron



Nilesh Saraf

nsaraf at sfu.ca

Simon Fraser University
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